Captain Kangaroo

Emil had 20 goals this season. His former LIU team had 19 total goals in 2024.

Shockingly, Dennis Helsel, Tom Wistercill and Larry Williams were not invited to join.

When it took them 12 minutes to call-off the bank shot three that clearly occurred after the shot clock buzzer, you knew they weren't going to let another opportunity to help the home team slip through their fingers.

From a late 90's Zips basketball game against Buffalo - Joe Dunn - "Dan, you were down over 20 points for the entire second half, and in the last minute cut it to 2 points. What happened?" Dan Hipsher - "Joe...it's easy to shoot threes when your down 20."

If the replay officiating at other SBC venues was anything like I saw last night in Arkansas I can understand why MAC teams were sub-.500.

Criminal goal tending call and some panicky offense in crunch time equals a Zips loss. Obviously another 24+ win Zips team. 2025 will be fun. But we need to finish.

It that was true, it would have happened by now. Instead, for 42 years, it's been the JAR.

Arkansas State Message Board Seems like they may be missing a couple key contributors tonight? They are impressed with the Zips deep pockets?

Zips down 17. Band playing 99 Luftballoons. Shoot me now. This is what hell must be like.

We aren’t undersized. We aren’t out-athleted. We just play stupid, indisciplined football.

We went 5 downs last possession and punted. Best result out of our last 5 possessions.

Essentially a4th turnover in the first 12 minutes

Bullock better be QB on the next possession

Two weeks in a row Kellom fumbles. Two weeks in a row Finley throws a terrible int. The umpteenth week in a row the defense folds at an alarming speed after an offensive blunder. For the umpteenth time the Zips are beating themselves.

Missing a Zips game to hang out at the Portage Lakes?!

It wouldn't just be Bud tightening his donation belt if a major recession hit. Every school would feel it.

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I'm sort of with you on this. But we've lost pretty much every "measuring stick" OOC game we've played dating back to the Huggins days. We've shown well in a few, but never win. A few of the many examples - Huggins lost to Pitt twice. One being at the Coliseum. Dambrot lost all the challenging Bracket Buster games (VCU multiple times, Nevada, Gonzaga etc) Groce has done the same. St Bonaventure last year is a good example...a chance to move up in weight class, and we fell short for the umpteenth time. The Zips annually float in the netherworld between the Horizon and the Missouri Valley. Good mid-major basketball. But not at-large-worthy. I've had season tickets for almost 30 years. I wish it would change. But we are who we are (can we add that to the ongoing cliche list?)

The OOC schedule doesn't really matter anyhow. People need to realized the MAC will never get an at-large tournament bid. The actual season begins in January.

I think we will need to play with more physicality than our opponents.

It would be great to see the Zips play a clean game. No stupid celebration penalties after a score or a sack. No shanked kickoffs or punts No surrendering 95+ yard drives No muffed kickoff or punt returns No letting the opponent drive the length of the field in the closing seconds of the half or game. i can dream, can’t I?

Pretty obvious to most.

If we win our first game, is it too soon to fret over Groce leaving, and begin speculation on the potential replacement candidates?

Zips are going to get the best effort from every opponent this season. They have a target on their back. Etc.